Letters

To the editor:
May God bless you, young lady. After teaching high school for 27 years and retiring in 2001, I have not read a more truthful evaluation of our flimsy-at-best education system in my life.
In light of recent events, you have found the common denominator that helps explain so many problems encountered by educators of today. Woe be tomorrow.
Thank you so much for sharing my (and many others’) views on the “system” to a small audience. Yet one has to start somewhere.

To the editor:
With regard to Rachel Johnson’s column, “A nation at war with itself marks a year of shooting deaths,” I wish to respond.
Really, you can’t think of a single way to make it stop? How about an assault weapons ban and a buy-back of the weapons that would meet that definition?
How about a common sense solution to this culture of gun violence instead of wringing your hands about what this country is coming to?
Stop crying and support a meaningful solution.
Carol A. Weaver
Ocean Isle Beach

To the editor:
Great power lies in the choices that we make. The actions we choose to take are just as important as the actions that we choose not to take.
What have you purposed in your heart to accomplish, to do, to activate your faith for? Be determined to pick up your cross daily and follow Jesus in 2013.
Like Daniel in the Bible, purpose not to defile yourself; say “No” to compromise. Follow Christ by the thoughts you think, by the words that you speak, and by the actions you take.

To the editor:
This is in response to Carl Evanoff’s letter to the editor last week, “What’s the message here?” A very interesting article and subject for debate, discussing whether real women in Brunswick County are made of plastic.
Mr. Evanoff should first recognize plastic is an intrinsic value of the “real woman” in today’s society. By that, I mean it is essential to their natural being. It makes women feel as belonging to something that bears the basic and essential features of nature.